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Quotes About Audacity

I never woke up and thought, 'I really want to live a bold life.'
~ Angelina Jolie
If you like going a certain way, then be bold and do it.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.
~ Sean Combs
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
~ Mae West
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia? (When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?)
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing that is devoid of justice can be honorable. It was well said by Plato: "Not only is knowledge, when divorced from justice, to be termed subtlety rather than wisdom; but also the soul prompt to encounter danger, if moved thereto by self-interest, and not by the common good, should have the reputation of audacity rather than of courage.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you're going to be wrong, at least be hot.
~ Margaret Cho
Don't be a goose!
~ Margaret Mitchell
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Yes.' He drank it all down and then casually threw the glass at the fireplace. I stared at the fragments. 'You don't mind, do you?' He gestured to the broken glass with a sarcastic smile. 'I surely hope you don't, because there's nothing much you can do about it if you do mind.
~ Anne Rice
You accuse me of audacity! You're living and breathing now entirely because I want it.
~ Anne Rice
Now you, brave one, little Ganymede of the blasphemers, you willful brazen cherub.
~ Anne Rice
Fuck you, human. (Phoenix) Wow, boys and girls, they're just so inviting, aren't they. Martha Stewart would be proud. (Susan)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I got a skanky dog with more brains than you and bigger balls. (Nathan)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
That didn't sound like them slinging beads at us. Think if I whip my shirt off, they'll go blind and leave?" Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!
~ Jonathan Raban
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do what you needed to do. It wasn't a joke! It was divine mercy, and you blew it! You were given what billions of people beg for, and you have the audacity to be angry about it?
~ John Goode
Some people have more guts than brains.
~ John Grisham
With great difficulty we hunted the dog-banditti into their caves of the city, and bribed them into giving back their victim. Money was the least thing to think of in such case; I would have given a thousand pounds if I had had them in my hand. The audacity of the wretched men was marvellous. They said that they had been 'about stealing Flush these two years,' and warned us plainly to take care of him for the future.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The crippled Raven found Will in his new room and seemed well pleased with the wider window, for all it must rattle at the glass for attention. Will didn't think this typical behavior in a raven, but perhaps the pampered birds at the Tower had been hand-fed into audacity.
~ Elizabeth Bear
En un combate no importaba tanto lo que se hiciera como ejecutarlo con audacia y determinación.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
En el fondo —dice—, a una mujer de mundo le gusta saber que hay hombres superiores a otros, más audaces y elegantes, que no defraudarán su vanidad, no se detendrán ante su pretendida virtud, y tomarán la iniciativa usando, incluso, la violencia adecuada que sirva de excusa a la mujer... ¿Me explico?
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte